MIDDLESEX .
(To wit)}

AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the Fifteenth Day of April in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of
our sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third , by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain, France, and
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
a Man unknown then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
Jonas Mox< no role > [..] Richard Baker< no role > , Joseph Meers< no role > John Meeres< no role > Griffin Boardman< no role >
Richard Debing< no role > , Jonathan Chalker< no role > , Henry Wilkie< no role > , John Harper< no role > , Samuel Bennett< no role >
William Berryman< no role > , James Clift< no role > , William Russell< no role > , George [..] ton< no role > William Stewart< no role >
George Maclearn< no role > John Spillmire< no role > , William Cokayne< no role > John Orton< no role > Joseph Brother head and John Lewis< no role >
good and lawful Men of the said County, duly chosen, and who being then and there duly
sworn and charged to inquire, for our said Lord the King, when, how, and by what Means, the
said Man unknown came to his
Death, do, upon their Oath, say, That the said Man unknown on the Fourteenth
Day of April in the Year aforesaid was found drowned and suffocated in The River
Thames at Wapping Dock in the Parish and County aforesaid But how or by
what Means he became drowned and suffocated no Evidence doth appear to the
said Jurors

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Jonas Moxon< no role >
the Foreman of the said Jurors, on the Behalf the himself and the Rest of his said Fellows, in
their Presence, have, to this Inquisition, set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first
above written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Jonas Moxon [mark] Foreman